mtl008 #497 - Chapter 497 Mad Lord
#497 - Chapter 497 Mad Lord
“Isn't it to capture Wu Wei?”
“Then we....”
Just as Wang Wen Dao fell into self-doubt, Gu Yi Yun, out of helplessness, directly told him the answer.
“Of course not!”
“The reason we are putting in so much effort to capture Wu Wei.”
“The purpose is actually only one!”
“That is, to preserve the status of our family!”
“Ah?”
Hearing Gu Yi Yun's statement, Wang Wen Dao was stunned on the spot.
To be honest, he really couldn't understand what connection there was between the two at first.
However, as a qualified lord, especially one who successfully squeezed into a major family through his own efforts.
Wang Wen Dao still came to the correct answer after thinking for a moment!
“Wait, I understand!”
“Heavens, Lord Gu Yi Yun, our Gu family's real target is actually the Su family!”
“You want to use Wu Wei's identity to shatter the Su family's hopes of advancing to a family?”
“But this.....”
“Is this really possible?”
Wang Wen Dao was right.
The Gu family really thought so.
In their view, the Su family's strength had grown rapidly in just ten years.
The speed of its growth had seriously threatened the Gu family's position.
And the reason why the Su family guild threatened the Gu family's position, and not other families.
The reason is actually quite complicated.
First of all, in the Human Empire, the total number of those who can be called families is very limited.
There are only eighteen families in total.
The reason why the number is eighteen is simply because when the founding emperor of the Human Empire created the Human Empire, he had eighteen most trusted subordinates.
And after he became the founding emperor, these eighteen subordinates each possessed the name of a family.
Of course, after several millennia, many of the oldest eighteen families have declined.
However, the total number of these eighteen families is fixed.
After each family declines, a new family will fill the vacancy.
Secondly, also due to various reasons, there is a very large gap in strength between these so-called eighteen families.
The strength of the strongest family may be several times, or even dozens of times, the strength of the last family.
And unfortunately.
Among these eighteen families, the Gu family is the one at the bottom.
Although their family's position has been maintained for hundreds of years.
But they are still the weakest family, which is a recognized fact in the Human Empire!
Once the strength of the Su family guild exceeds a certain threshold and engages them in a [Family Contention War], then they will immediately be removed from the family ranks and stripped of their family name by the Human Empire.
And when that time comes, all the benefits that the Gu family obtained after becoming a family will disappear. Even more terrifying is that once the Gu family is no longer a family, countless lords will try every means to tear off a piece of bloody flesh from them....
A slightly weakened lion is not afraid of a newly matured lion.
What it is really afraid of are the “wolves” lurking in the dark!
Therefore, preserving the family's position is the most concerning issue for every Gu family head!
However, although every Gu family head desperately wants to protect their family's position, the higher-ups in the entire Human Empire have a common understanding.
That is, in no more than five years, as short as one year, or as long as two or three years, the Gu family's position will definitely be replaced by the Su family guild.
Because in the past few years, Su Yuan Zheng, who was still a legendary lord, is now transforming into a true demigod lord.
And when that time comes, the Su family, under the leadership of Su Yuan Zheng, will become a new family.
The Gu family, this bottom-ranked family that has not produced a new demigod lord for decades, will be completely swept into the trash heap of the Human Empire!
“Of course it's possible!”
Gu Yi Yun looked at Wang Wen Dao's face full of horror and couldn't help but laugh.
“Because, although Wu Wei is not Su Yuan Zheng's biological son.”
“Su Yuan Zheng is a very sentimental guy.”
“After all, besides Su Yuan Zheng, this brute, the one who helped the Su family guild transform from a mid-tier guild into the peak guild it is today was Wu Wei's father, who was hidden behind the scenes.”
“Wu Wei's father... wait....!”
“Damn it!”
Suddenly, Wang Wen Dao seemed to remember something.
“It can't be, that guy's father, could he be the legendary Mad Lord?”
“That's right, it's that Madman surnamed Wu!”
Wang Wen Dao said with an expression of disbelief.
“Wait, let me sort this out!”
“First of all, shouldn't that madman just be a legend?”
“Does he really exist?”
“And...”
“What I heard back then was that this guy, who has always maintained his mystery, is just an ordinary friend of Su Yuan Zheng, right?”
“How could he secretly help the Su family guild?”
Gu Yi Yun grinned and said to Wang Wen Dao.
“That guy is real!”
“Although he is very mysterious and rarely appears in the real world or in the sight of other lords, almost all families know of his existence.”
“Secondly....”
“You don't really think that Su Yuan Zheng was able to achieve his current achievements with just his pig brain, do you?”
“How is that possible!”
“Although Su Yuan Zheng's personal strength is very strong, it is not strong enough to compete with families that have hundreds of years of history!”
“The high probability that he was able to obtain foundations comparable to those of a family in these short ten years was with the help of that madman!”
“After all, the wealth and foundations left behind by that mad lord are not much less than those of our family.”
“So....”
Gu Yi Yun looked at Wang Wen Dao.
“Do you still believe that Su Yuan Zheng really doesn't care about Wu Wei?”
“Hmph.”
“Wang Wen Dao, you, who are not at the core of the family, think things too simply.”
“The reason why Su Yuan Zheng doesn't put Wu Wei in front of everyone is, to put it bluntly, just to protect him!”
“Hiding him, hiding him in the darkness, is much safer than exposing him.”
“Especially when...”
“The vast majority of people don't know Wu Wei's background!”
“Believe me, after a certain event, the vast majority of lords no longer know of the existence of that mad lord.”
“His data, his history, and even many people who had anything to do with him have been wiped out.”
“If it weren't for the fact that you and I, these high-level members of the family, are high enough in status and safe enough.”
“You and I would probably be forced to forget him too.”
“Because that matter involved too much.....”
Just as Wang Wen Dao was still talking with Gu Yi Yun, two uninvited guests walked in.
And their appearance made Wang Wen Dao and Gu Yi Yun directly show unpleasant expressions.
Because the appearance of these two people always means that something bad is about to happen...